16 DECEMBER 1871, page 16

George Eliot's Middlemarch."*

WHATEVER the value of "the higher criticism," it can hardly be denied that criticism of a mere commencement cannot very easily be criticism of " the higher " kind,—that it must......

Books.

MR. FORSTER'S LIFE OF CHARLES DICKENS.* We have already compared the impressions left upon us by Mr. Forster's life of Dickens and Dickens's autobiographical fiction, " David......